Gnat Fuzz

[szukalski]

No question. This thing is awesome. It took a bit of time to get the right transistor in Q3, the best sounding was a GT402B pushing nearly 150 HFE but the bias was the best I had at -1.2V on the collector.

This has the fuzz tone I’ve been having in my head and was totally worth the effort.

 

[Coda]

Pics or it’s a DS-1…

 

[szukalski]

I’ll get a build report once I’ve gotten round to the enclosure graphics, here’s a gut shot. Something made me want to fit it into a 1590B. That kinda worked.

 

[almondcity]

Nice build. This is actually next in my queue, gonna go with Elka Dizzy Tone specs. Got a bunch of PNPs coming from new Small Bear

 

[Coda]

I too have a DizzyTone build in the near future, to go with my Buzzaround (attached). Taught me a lesson about hand drills and folded steel enclosures…

 

[Mir9]

Is that a PNP GT402, instead of 404, which is NPN? I see the charge pump, and the 2n1307 is PNP.

I built a great sounding NPN Dizzytone with GT402B and a pair of MP38's. Does the Buzzaround sound any different?

 

[szukalski]

Is that a PNP GT402, instead of 404, which is NPN? I see the charge pump, and the 2n1307 is PNP.

I built a great sounding NPN Dizzytone with GT402B and a pair of MP38's. Does the Buzzaround sound any different?

Great catch, it is a GT402.. I have web error codes on my mind

I have only heard the Dizzytone through the Pete Thorn demo, it sounds very similar, but I am so happy with the Buzzaround that I want to build a Dizzytone as well.

Stacked with a Modus Operandi, it's a super versatile combo. It's really tickling my mind to build a combo pedal.

 

[music6000]

Great catch, it is a GT402.. I have web error codes on my mind

I have only heard the Dizzytone through the Pete Thorn demo, it sounds very similar, but I am so happy with the Buzzaround that I want to build a Dizzytone as well.

Stacked with a Modus Operandi, it's a super versatile combo. It's really tickling my mind to build a combo pedal.

This is what I came up with in another Discussion using the Gnat PCB!
This is for PNP Transistors
The Cap on the Bottom left is left Empty:

 

[music6000]

Checkout the new Kasleder Vintage Tone Fuzz!
I jut posted on The Breakroom Forum.

https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/kasleder-vintage-king-fuzz-pedal.11630/#post-118495

 

[Betty Wont]

The dizzy tone is pretty cool. The buzzaround is more distortion than fuzz, and the dizzy tone is a chord hating opposite. They are definitely different enough to warrant both. I build both into a 2-in-1.

 

[jeffwhitfield]

Actually, the Buzzaround is closer to a Tone Bender than a Fuzz Face. Great fuzz though. I've got a pedal based on a Tone Bender. They're both comparable...but have their own qualities that make them quite different from one another.

 

[Coda]

Actually, the Buzzaround is closer to a Tone Bender than a Fuzz Face. Great fuzz though. I've got a pedal based on a Tone Bender. They're both comparable...but have their own qualities that make them quite different from one another.

I only recently discovered that the ToneBender MKIII may actually be based on the Buzzaround, and that the Buzzaround itself was a clone of something called the Harmonic Generator, which was first available, apparently, in 1964. Burns ripped it off in 1966 for the Buzzaround, and the Tonebender followed in 1968...

 

[peccary]

This is what I came up with in another Discussion using the Gnat PCB!
This is for PNP Transistors
The Cap on the Bottom left is left Empty:

I'm just going to call you the Gnat Master from now on.

 

[jeffwhitfield]

I only recently discovered that the ToneBender MKIII may actually be based on the Buzzaround, and that the Buzzaround itself was a clone of something called the Harmonic Generator, which was first available, apparently, in 1964. Burns ripped it off in 1966 for the Buzzaround, and the Tonebender followed in 1968...

Yup...everything is a derivative of a derivative of yet another derivative.